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 Vol. 020 Issue 010 (October 1 1956)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE PROGRESSIVE'S CHOICE
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The Progressive's Choice ON THE basis of their platforms, there is precious little to choose between the Republicans and the Democrats. Both documents are masterpieces of evasion, heavy-laden with...
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THE TROUBLE WITH NIXON
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Rubin, Morris H.
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THE TROUBLE WITH NIXON A Documented Report / by Morris H. Rubin THE biggest problem facing Rich- ard Milhous Nixon, wrote one of his friends among the Washington correspondents, "is to overcome...
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BUSINESSMEN SHOULD BE DEMOCRATS
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Benton, William
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BUSINESSMEN should be DEMOCRATS by William Benton JOHN J. McCLOY, the estimable chairman of Chase-Manhattan, one of the two or three most powerful banks in the United States, testified last year...
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VIVE LA DEBACLE!
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Mayer, Milton
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Vive la Debacle! By MILTON MAYER Bruges, Belgium THE English used to have a national anthem, set to the coda of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, which went like this: Wider still and wider May...
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SEWER LIBERALISM'
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Lens, Sid
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'Sewer Liberalism' By SID LENS This symposium is the first of a number of discussions of American liberalism planned by the Editors of The Progressive. Others will follow later this year and in...
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CLUMSY SLANDER'
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Tyler, Gus
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'Clumsy Slander' By GUS TYLER THE central complaint against the liberals of 1956, according to Sid Lens, is the fact that they are in 1956 saying things that they did not say in 1936. My central...
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LENS' UNFAIRNESS'
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Neuberger, Richard L.
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'Lens' Unfairness' By RICHARD L. NEUBERGER pENESIS I, No. 3, tells us that y "there were giants in the earth in those days." It is a favorite pastime of mankind to look back nostalgically upon an...
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THE SOFT SELL
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Goodman, Walter
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The Soft Sell By WALTER GOODMAN THE eccentric male has become a prominent figure along Madison Avenue these days. The patch-sporting sport in the Hathaway shirt has raised his shirtmakers from...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Sex and Pix Needed Dear Sirs: Peter Celliers' letter in the September issue is significant in that it states very well the frustration a single individual is apt to feel in...
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA
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Bruner, Dick; Toffler, Al; Markham, Samuel
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA Notes on a Farmer-Labor Coalition in the Midwest—and the Race in Oregon Farm-Labor Pact Faces Election Test By DICK BRUNER & AL TOFFLER Des Moines ELEVEN MEN—eight farmers...
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THE HURRICANE'S CLOUDED EYE
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Dworkin, Martin S.
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The Hurricane's Clouded Eye By MARTIN S. DWORKIN Storm Center is the kind of controversial film that excites quotation-mark "controversy." Evaluation of its qualities is construed as...
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THE NEW MILITARISM
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Smith, Louis
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The New Militarism The Civilian and the Military, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. Oxford University Press. 340 pp. $6.50. Reviewed by Louis Smith a DOZEN years ago, as World War II came to a close, a...
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HISTORY OF THE G. O. P.
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HUITT, RALPH K.
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History of the G.O.P. The Republicans: a history of their party, by Malcolm Moos. Random House. 564 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Ralph K. Huitt IN 1856 "an aggregation of Free Soilers, Independent...
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UNSWERVING DEMOCRAT
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Filler, Louis
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Unswerving Democrat The Democratic Man: selected writings of eduard c. lindeman. edited by Robert Gessner. Beacon Press. 390 pp. $5. Reviewed by Louis Filler IWOULD like to think this a...
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RECENT FICTION
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Hayes, E. Nelson
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Recent Fiction By E. NELSON HAYES SERIOUS historical fiction often illustrates, even if unintentionally, Arnold Toynbee's thesis of chal-lenge-and-response, of harsh circumstances making or...
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PAPERBACK PLUMS
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McCann, William
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Paperback Plums By WILLIAM McCANN a NOTABLE new entry in the still expanding quality paperback field is Grosset & Dunlap's Universal Library. Among its dozen titles for fall publication are The...
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SLAVERY & PREJUDICE
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Gara, Larry
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Slavery & Prejudice Goodbye to Uncle Tom, by J. C. Furnas. Sloane. 435 pp. $6. Reviewed by Larry Gara THE BOOK opens with an examination of Uncle Tom's Cabin and its famous author, but the...
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